JBChiangRai

Always buy through the official channel, many of the grey imports are stolen from the UK.

Unfortunately, not everyone has been as lucky as you, which you'd know if you read the full thread.

Not an MG, I have another car with two extra modes, Sport Plus and configurable for power, suspension & lots of other bits. Sports Plus pre-heats or cools the battery for optimum power/charging, makes the gearbox use the lower gear on partial throttle opening etc. The GPS also pre-conditions the batter if you program a CS as the destination/way-point.

You might find there is a setting to pre-condition the battery for charging, on my car selecting "Sport Plus" does that.

Did you read this post? This scam can only work with COD, I have sent back lots of items, Lazada always resolves it successfully because they are holding the money, we don't use COD, we don't need to track the package, there are 4 people in this household we all use Lazada, COD would be frought with issues checking who has ordered what and when it's due to arrive. I can't think of a scam that works with non COD, perhaps you can? I have checked, I don't seem to be missing anything, what are you missing?

I have tried 2 EA chargers, one in Chiang MaI and the other at Robinsons, Kampgaeng Phet, neither would work. Fortunately the slow AC charger next to the EA one in Robinson's would work and @FarangRimPing was on hand to whisk me off on a tour of temples for a couple of hours.

Even that isn't safe, if the seller ships two packages, a fake one first and another real Lazada package filled with a toilet roll on the morning he expects the fake to be delivered. The only safe way is non COD.

Nobody is saying all COD is a scam, just that the risks are higher because it's not Lazada who are holding your money, it's a courier and some of them release it immediately you sign POD. You are right in saying that Lazada do provide the tools to check that the parcel was shipped through lazada but how many of us check the lazada app when the courier is at the door? I can't realistically expect my maid to call me and get me to check the app because she is stood in front of a courier and if I am out dining with my friends I don't want the intrusion. I prefer Lazada to hold my money, I have returned around a dozen items and have never been let down by them, from fake good to poor quality or broken merchandise. I am a seller on Lazada and I can tell you that I have no choice in the courier, Lazada allocate a courier and ask me to print a shipping label already filled out with seller, buyer, courier's house waybill number etc and take it to that courier. Sometimes there is no choice but to use Lazada or Shopee, we had a toilet seat break and none of the DIY stores here carried Bathline any more and the only place I could get it was online. Lazada was the only place I could buy a Christmas pudding and sage & onion stuffing for Christmas Day, 2 dozen LED lightbulbs delivered yesterday at a third of the price they are in the shops here. I don't have to worry about trying to bully a courier into breaking his company's rules and letting me open the goods first and rest safe letting my maid sign for goods knowing that Lazada won't pay the merchant for a few days giving me time to request a return. For those of us with teenagers, did they order COD? good luck calling them to ask if they ordered it and to check it was shipped on Lazada, it's hard enough getting them to answer their phones! I have an implied contract with Lazada who care about their reputation, I have no contract whatsoever with a courier. COD carries risks that just aren't there with non COD.

You really didn't read my post did you? I explained it was another forum member who was scammed this way, his name is LALes and this is the post

"Whataboutery"?? My post was filled with facts, specifically a very detailed description about how the scam works. You can't be scammed if you don't pay COD, Lazada has your back.

How would you know? he may have copied the lazada logo and the courier company don't care, the parcel label states the contents are what you ordered on Lazada, the weight is about right and the courier won't let you open it till you've paid. If you open the parcel in front of the courier, he is not going to give you your money back, he's not allowed to. You have to file a complaint with the courier company and hope they don't pay the scammer too quickly, the scammer usually picks a courier company that release funds to him immediately the courier has a POD. Expand and see above, Where your process goes wrong is when the seller is a crook, the courier has paid the seller who disappears into the wide blue yonder with your money.

You’re missing the point. When something is sent to you COD it may not have been sent through the Lazada platform. The seller may ship COD direct (he is given your name and address) and cancel your order on the Lazada platform just before timeout, Lazada can’t handle a return because there is no corresponding sale for them to process. This is currently the leading COD scam. I have returned lots of things and always been refunded, but all paid non COD.

The problem is it might not be Lazada holding on to your cash.

I have had to return lots of items, from fake phones to broken goods, it's never an issue when Lazada are holding your money, I have no idea how much trouble I would have had if they were COD. I would rather Lazada hold my money than a courier.

The answer to your question is 1. My maid signed and paid for a parcel when nobody was here. I hadn’t ordered it, neither had my 2 daughters, but we typically get 2 or 3 deliveries weekly. So she thought she was being helpful. The courier wouldn’t let her open it first, it was a stone wrapped in toilet roll. The courier wouldn’t refund her and told her to talk to the office. So we now have a rule, nobody in my household orders COD, all COD arrivals are rejected. I have sold an item on Lazada, they gave me the buyers name and address and told me to take the item to Flash with a label I had to print, if I didn’t and shipped something same size and weight COD, you would probably sign for it and you’ve just completed the sale off the lazada platform, actually this is the most common lazada scam. Never trust COD, it’s a mugs game.

You order COD, the parcel arrives, it’s about the right size and weight, the courier won’t let you open it until you pay, and you pay only to find it’s a toilet roll. Lazada tell you that you completed the sale off their platform and they can’t help you. Actually you did complete the sale off their platform, and Lazada are correct. Can you work out how the scam was perpetrated?

COD is a mugs game, good luck getting your money back from a courier.

I just checked eBay in the UK for sold items BMW 530e and i3, there seems to be a fairly healthy sales markets for them. I checked sold items only, not live or failed listings.

I think there is supercharging and then there is SUPERcharging. My own unsubstantiated opinion, is that very high speed SUPERcharging is probably not so good for the battery, from what I have read and watched on youtube, most supercharging here is done at speeds 50-80Kw which is probably not very different from spirited driving except the electrons are flowing the other way in the battery, I think full power acceleration in the MG EV's is drawing 125 or 175Kw (I forget which). Balancing the battery is an interesting technology, there is passive and active balancing. MG seems to employ passive balancing which only occurs at the end of the charging process, actually I have never seen that before on an EV. On the batteries I built for my solar power system, I fitted active balancers because I didn't want to ever take them over 80% SoC. They are constantly balancing themselves. On the subject of EV sales slowing down and people moving from EV's back to Petrol in the UK. I saw the statistics that led to this conclusion, it was an incorrect deduction based on the statistics. EV sales in the UK last year are up over 40%, Petrol sales are also up and this is where the incorrect conclusion was drawn, you needed to look at Diesel sales which are down massively. The correct conclusion IMHO is that people are replacing their Diesel cars with both Petrol and EV's.

I have a friend awaiting delivery of his MG EP+ that he ordered last October on my recommendation. He has condo's in Rayong & Chiang Rai without the ability to install a home charger. He can supercharge at MG locally in both towns very cheaply and get a free coffee whilst he waits. He will drive between the two locations, fast charging at the abundant fast chargers on the route, his cost savings over using a pickup truck were his main reasons for ordering his EP+. MG have a supercharger network, no further than 150km apart (so they claim). I rarely do long journeys, but I have noticed lots of superchargers, on the main routes at least.

I have changed my view on batteries for ESS, having taken delivery of an MG4 a week or so ago and got into the settings, and reading posts on a forum in the UK. I wouldn't buy an expensive battery or install a generator to cover PEA blackouts. If I was to go down this route again I would simply use the V2L capability of an MG4 and wire it into the house circuit using an ATS (Automatic Transfer Switch), permanently plugging the V2L adaptor into the car and setting the discharge cutoff to something like 40% SoC. Tests carried out in the UK suggest it will sustainably deliver 6.5Kw of power.

Allow me to correct your erroneous quote... Yes, full EVs are SOMETIMES UNsuitable for those who can’t charge at home or undertake frequent long trips EXCEPT IN THAILAND WHERE THERE IS AN ABUNDANCE OF FAST CHARGERS. Could I respectfully suggest that you try to keep up.

Not true, EV car sales last year are up 40% on the year before in the UK. Globally, up 50%. Source Bloomberg. from Highways agency While the number of petrol cars registered during 2022 as a whole (682,473) significantly outstripped the 267,203 BEV registrations, that figure was higher than the 82,981 diesel cars registered during the year. BEVs ended the year with 16.6% of the market in 2022, up from 11.6% a year earlier.

Maybe, I think they all operate on a 5 volt supply from USB type power, but it depends on what plug/socket combination is on the dashcam, if the plug fits, it should be ok. I bought the cheapest dashcam, 1,800 baht fitted, I don't know how to use mine either, the supplier told me just to unplug it shortly after an accident and the insurance company would do the rest.

What is the chart on the bottom right hand side? Is it something people used to put in their cars last century?